Stella France
2006, 77min.
Prod.: Guicheteau Nicolas, Script/Dir./Dir. of Phot./Sound: Vanina Vignal, Edit.: Mélanie Braux
Cast: Stella Margean, Marcel Margean, Gabriela Moldoveanu
Stella spends her days begging at the Oberkampf metro station, but no one really sees her, just as no one sees the blind woman selling flowers in “City Lights”. She has left everything behind for love. She has chosen to live illegally in France for her husband who was stricken with a serious illness, convinced she would find a doctor in this country able to save his life. She manages; but at what cost? She herself soon falls ill. Without a job or money, with no legal status, she waits for her treatment to end so she can return to Romania. Thus begins an endless expectation. Stella has to learn to live against her own principles whilst in constant fear of identity controls.
Awards
Patrimony Award (Cinéma du réel, International Documentary FF, Paris 2007)
Production Company
OSTINATI
E-mail: ostinati@free.fr
| Vignal, Vanina Vanina Vignal
Born in France, she studied for an actress at the Jacques Lecoq International School of Theater and Movement and the National Theatre Conservatory of Romania. She has worked extensively in theatre, which has given her a subtle perception of drama embedded in common lives. Vignal then took courses for assistant editor and assistant director, before turning to her own projects.
Filmography
Stella (2006)
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